I’ve been to the islands in my summer reading this year: Norwegian, Atlantic Canadian, Jamaican, Greenlandian and Sri Lankan. Roy Jacobsen’s Ingrid trilogy landed in my stack thanks to a reading copy of White Shadow from Biblioasis, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw. Partly because I liked the
"I'm not gong to let on I was born here," Jane begins. It's 1977 and she is eighty-four years old, touring the lighthouse at Point Lucia which she last saw when she was 19. Atria Books - Simon and Schuster, 2013 Christina Schwarz's novel immediately immerses readers in another
"She's a beauty all right," said Tom, taking in the giant lens, far taller than himself, atop the rotating pedestal: a palace of prisms like a beehive made from glass. It was the very heart of Janus, all light and clarity and silence." Janus is a small isolated island off
